Faust at the Met

By Stratton Rawson – Senior Producer, Classical 94.5 WNED 

Faust —the opera not the long metaphysical poem by Goethe that inspired it— has always been the opera that defines what opera going means in America. Faust’s iconic presence on our soil was enshrined in the opening paragraphs of Edith Wharton’s classic novel about the travails of life in upper class New York, The Age of Innocence: